The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-15
the ANNUAL REPORT
Of the Presiding Elder of
HillsbOrO District,
Cincinnati Conference, Mct,,O-
dist Episcopal Church,
To the Conference Session at Mfchnn.
tcsbnrg, Ohio, August 81, 1887.

teaDurg, Ohlu, August 3is 1870
BisHoP ANDREWS AND BRETHREN OF THE
CoNrERENcE:-God has been gracious Ia
the work in this District, and has greatly
prospered the labors of His servants.
Under the redistricting Of last year this
one came to be the largest territorally
in the Conference about | 900 square
miles, or abo' I one -tourth Of the entire
Conference. My personal labors have
been abundant, hut no man enjoying
good health should ever complain Of
hard work, aud God has blessed me with
excellent health. We have worked In
the greatest harmony, and as the term
Of four years closes / beg to say that l
count myself exceedingly fortunate in
having such band Of single-minded
men of God as pastors and associates in
the work. Ifanything has been accom-.
plished it is, under God, to be credited
to their constant faithfulness in all the
details of the work.
DECEAsE OF DIR. YOUNG.
Only few days ago our venerable
and highly esteemed DR.. Young passed
peacefully to his reward The funeral
took place at Mt Washington last Mon.
day. About a score of our ministers
were present. II it had pleased God to
give him his usual health for the last
six months, it is likely that Loveland
Methodism would by this time be in a
very much stronger position and its fu-
ture more certainly assured. We will
all greatly miss our honest, reliable and
faithful counselor, DR.. Young
THE HrLLsBoRo FEMALE COLLEGE
Has on the whole had q prosperous year.
DIR. Helt and his excellent wife have
taken a strong hold on the people Of
Hillsboro and vicinity. They have been
laying strong foundations. There seems
just now good ground to expect fine
future for the college. 1t deserves it.
PASTORAL SUPPORT
On the District has made considerable
advance this year. In no instance was
the estimate reduced, but on the other
hand out of the twenty-seven pastors
engaged in the District the estimates of
twelve, or nearly one-half, were increas-
ed. The aggregate increase over the
amount estimated by the same charges
the former year is 1854, and adding
the increase for Episcopal Fund ST ,66l.
Tho l~n,,kh of chic hoc
borne disastrously hard on a portion of
the district and heavily upon all, while
prices for farm products are very low,
making money unusually scarce and col.
lections correspondingly slow. Yet I
gather from the preachers reports that
the deficiencies on even these advanced
estimates will probably be but little
greater than on the lower estimates of
last year-and the minutes show that
last year Hillsboro District showed the
smallest deficiencies of any in the Con-
ference. That the presiding elder shared
in this advance through the enlarge
ment of the district to the amount of $347
may not be uninteresting to some of the
members of the Conference-seeing this
is the fourth year of the present en-
cumbent!
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
Our Sunday schools have, think,
made improvement. had hoped to do
something in the way of holding insti-
tutes, or of establishing normal class
es, but with the multitude of other mat
ters pressing, could not reach it, though
deeply impressed with the great need of
better trained Sunday school teaching. In
the SO preaching appointments there are
86Sunday schools. At the other points
the Sunday schools have been allowed
to die, but in one case at least we have
hope of resurrection. All but one OF
these schools now use our own literature
and lesson helps. All but two are Or
ganized regularly under Sunday school
boards. One of these is a union school
held in union church at Union appoint
ment of Clarksville Circuit. But even
there our literature is in the school. I
suppose because it is the best they could
get! Unceasing vigilance is necessary
to prevent some Sunday schools from
backsliding in two particulars: First,
toward the town-meeting fashion of
electing officers and doing business and
second, toward using as lesson-dilutors
the thin, superficial, invertebrate trash
of certain Chicago firm, that on the
misleading cry of cheapness seems to be
sought after by some of our people.
There is Q single school in the district
still using this stuff. The fact developed
only . week ago last Saturday in the
Quarterly Conference; hence we have
not had time to correct it. The Quar-
terly Conference, however, by decisive
vote ordered the school to at once organ
ise its Sunday school board, and not
later than October secure our own les
son helps. Only schools out of the SO
have teacher meetings, and in only %
Of the So u the Catechism used. At
Morrow, one Of the places where they
ne the Cstechism and have teachers'
meeting, there il held quarterly q writ
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